Digital meets Culture

Barcelona, 12 June 2018: PHOTOCONSORTIUM annual event

Digital Cultural Heritage as a lab for fostering win-win collaboration between the public and the private sector

PHOTOCONSORTIUM, the international consortium for photographic heritage, organized its annual event 2018 in Barcelona, hosted by Generalitat de Catalunia – GENCAT in the beautiful locations of the Department of Culture.

While the Association’s general assembly took place on 11th June, a public conference is organized the day after.

“Digital Cultural Heritage as a lab for fostering win-win collaboration between the public and the private sector” – half day conference

Santa Mònica Art Centre, La Rambla 7 Barcelona

12 June 2018

10.00 Welcome message / Anna Busom, GENCAT

10.10 The road from object to story: metadata as a gateway to unlocking digital heritage / Fred Truyen, Photoconsortium president

10.30 Photoconsortium collections in Europeana: Europeana Photography and Migration / Sofie Taes, curator

10.50 break

11.20 EU funding digital cultural heritage: how to succeed in a European project / Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium vicepresident

11.40 Connecting Culture with Europeana / Douglas McCarthy, Europeana

12.00 Panel discussion: Experiences of collaboration, sustainability and best practices around photographic heritage and new technologies

Chair: David I. Frank, CRDI
Confirmed Participants: András Török, Fortepan; Frank Golomb, United Archives; Ismo Malinen, National Board of Antiquities; Allison Kupietzky, the Israel Museum; Erik Buelinkx, KIK-IRPA; Douglas Mc Carthy, Europeana.

13.00 Closing of the event

Attendance was free. Contact: info@photoconsortium.net.

20-21 June 2018 Berlin (Germany)

REACH Project at the European Cultural Heritage Summit

In the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Summit, the REACH Project was presented at two conferences:

20 June, ROCK session “Cultural Heritage connects!”. An event dedicated to ROCK (Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural Heritage in creative and Knowledge cities), an European-funded project led by the city of Bologna, involving 10 large European cities, universities, cities’ network and private partners. Themes explored included:

– From tangible to intangible heritage;

– Cultural heritage communities;

– Relations between cultural heritage and sustainability.

REACH Project was introduced by Dr. Antonella Fresa, Network Coordinator.

21 June,”Visions for Cultural Heritage and Digital Platforms”Conference.

In the awareness that digital applications play a more and more important role in cultural and scientific scopes, the event introduced factual data and cooperation platforms: one for 3-D, AV, AR and one for participatory approaches to cultural heritage. The theme was tackled at European, national and regional levels.

The conference involved a wide range of experts in digitization and cultural heritage, coming from Universities, public and private Organizations throughout Europe: the final debate and outcomes were included in a Manifesto, together with guidelines for the future.

In this context, Prof. Neil Forbes, from Coventry University and REACH project Coordinator left a contribute on the theme of “ Resilient cultural heritage and communities: the REACH platform”.

Both conferences were part of the week-long programme of the European Cultural Heritage Summit titled “Sharing Heritage – Sharing Values”, held in Berlin from 18- 24 June 2018. The event was co-hosted by Europa Nostra, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the German Cultural Heritage Committee (DNK).

All events included in the rich agenda were focused on conservation and digitization of the European cultural heritage: they took place at different venues in Berlin and Potsdam and they were all public.

More information about “ROCK Session “Cultural Heritage Connects!”

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/events/rock-poster-session-cultural-heritage-connects?card=8603

More information about “Visions for Cultural Heritage and Digital Platforms” Conference:

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/events/conference-visions-for-cultural-heritage-and-digital-platforms?card=9762

European Cultural Heritage Summit wepage:

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/

San Francisco (US), 14-15 March 2019

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2019

FICC 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries, with the common goal of shaping the future of Information and Communication.

We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for the Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2019 to be held from 14-15 March 2019 in San Francisco. The conference is technically co-sponsored by IEEE.

FICC 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions and exchange knowledge with the common goal of shaping the future of Information and Communication.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops.

Important Dates
Paper Submission Due : 15 June 2018
Acceptance Notification : 15 July 2018
Author Registration : 15 August 2018
Camera Ready Submission : 15 September 2018
Conference Dates : 14-15 March 2019

Complete details are available on the conference website : http://saiconference.com/FICC

All FICC 2019 presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for indexing to IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar and more.

EUCIDA is an interactive and innovative community of digital, media and technology artists, curators, researchers and cultural workers

EUCIDA Travel Award: Call out for European Digital Artists and Cultural Workers

EUCIDA is a EU Creative Europe project led by South Dublin Arts Centre Company Ireland, in partnership with Le Département du Territoire de Belfort (France) and Rezeknes Novada Pasvaldiba (Lativa). It is an interactive and innovative community of digital, media and technology artists, curators, researchers and cultural workers, connecting to imagine new ways of artistic mobility, to use technologies as a vector and to augment the sharing of experience, creative practice and opportunities transnationally both for artists and new audiences in reality and virtually. EUCIDA aims to make digital arts accessible to a non-arts audience, and bring a wider public interaction with arts and technology through a programme of ambitious and unique experiences.

A call is launched for EUCIDA Travel Award Fund, for digital artists and cultural workers to take part in European Mobility visits: the Fund supports the development of cultural diversity within new media/ digital arts by enabling artists and practitioners to travel, to show their works, exchange ideas and experiences and will award each successful applicant, with a financial contribution up to 500 euro.

More info: http://www.eucida.eu/news/mobility-visit-fund-call-out-for-european-digital-artists-and-cultural-workers

Workshop in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) by and with the theatre artist Roaa Bzeih MINWAL THEATRE COMPANY ( Lebanon).

Social Empowerment in Digital Theatre – workshop 2-4 June 2018

The workshop intends to produce a self- consciously work about social awareness and to engage a debate about the way we organize society and our lives, focus on our personal choices and their influence in our relationships, social and political life.
New interactive technologies are experimented by the participants, in relation to this theme.
The workshops aims also to select artists, actors, actresses, performers under 35 and not for A.R.T.E. (Augmented Reality Theater Experience)’s final productions.

This workshop is oriented for actors, actresses, professional and non-professional performers, theatre and non theatre practitioners.

Time: 12 hours divided into 3 days.
4 hours each day,
from 4:00p.m till 8:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday 2, Sunday 3, Monday 4 June 2018.
Participant number: up to 20 maximum.
Cost: € 40.
Discount for students.

More information:

http://www.kyberteatro.it/en/laboratorio.asp?id=4

info@kyberteatro.it,

mobile +39 347 04 84 783

About Roaa Bzeih:
Holding higher studies diploma in theatre studies from the Lebanese University in 2009. A co-founder and co-artistic director at Minwal Theatre Company – Lebanon, where she develops the theatre training programs addressed to actors and non-actors. Her artistic practice is based on the role of the performer in creating a dynamic and vocal language that imitates contemporary artistic language. She presented her work in Beirut, Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda and Italy.

Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe received more than 150 attendees

Successful Opening Conference for REACH project!

The last 10th -11th of May REACH celebrated its Opening Conference in Budapest with a remarkable participation: 152 attendees, 16 videos and 35 posters presented.
High-level experts discussed and compared good examples of participatory processes and researches facing the theme of “Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe”.
The conference was organized by ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.
During the 2 days programme, 32 speakers interchanged in the presentation of projects, researches and studies;
interesting debates and discussions enriched the topics of the four REACH project pilots on minority, rural, small towns and institutional heritage.
Resilient and participation in cultural heritage was the main theme of the round table and the world café during which attendees and participants shared experiences, knowledges and best practices. The outcomes of the meetings will be included in a manifesto containing the main principles of REACH.
In parallel, the Hungarian National Archives in partnership with Europeana Foundation run a collection day: during the conference everyone was invited to share his/her personal and family’s migration story, contributing to paint a bigger picture of European migration movements over the last few centuries.
More information and documents about the conference:
link to the conference webpage
link to the programme and presentations
link to the videos
link to the poster gallery
link to the photo gallery

Submissions are open until 15th September. The event takes place in October 22 to 26 in Turin. Registration is also now open.

VIEW Conference and competitions 2018 – call for films

The 2018 VIEW Conference is now accepting submissions for its 2018 film competitions: The VIEW AWARD 2018 for short animated films, which has a €2,000 first prize, and the ITALIANMIX award for Italian short films.

The VIEW AWARD is open to professionals and students, individuals or groups. Entries must be 2D or 3D animated films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2016. An international jury drawn from the VIEW conference speaker roster will award the €2,000 first prize.

The ITALIANMIX award is open to Italian artists working individually or with a group. Animated, experimental, or documentary films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2016 are accepted. The winner will receive a Wacom tablet.

Any dialog in the films must be in English or Italian, or have subtitles in English or Italian. Each submission should come with a press kit, a description of the project, high res still images of the work, and director credits. There is a €10 fee to enter.

To enter either competitions, go to https://festivals.festhome.com/f/776

The deadline for entries is September 15, 2018.

The international VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere event for Computer Graphics, Interactive and Immersive Storytelling, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, and VR, AR, and Mixed Reality, brings top professionals from those fields to the beautiful baroque city of Torino, Italy for a week of talks, presentations, and workshops.

This year’s conference takes place from October 22 to 26. Registration is now open. Please join us!

For more information:

https://www.viewconference.it

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/viewconference

Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChGdAnZQE6UcH_OQ5DNFW_Q

Twitter: @viewconference

Instagram: view_conference

application deadline for projects about the interaction between arts and technology: 15th July 2018

“Le Meraviglie del Possibile” call for artists

Between November and December 2018, Kyber Teatro organises in Cagliari (Italy) the Fifth Edition of International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called

“Le Meraviglie del Possibile”.

LMDP Festival is the first of this kind in the whole Italy. Its aim is to promote the interrelation between artistic and technological languages.

Kyber Teatro – spin off of L’Aquilone di Viviana (Festival’s theatre company, creator and manager), addresses to Italian and International artists an Open Call to submit their projects about “Interaction between arts and technology”.

Who can attend: The participation is open to artists of every nationality, working individually or in a group.

Eligible projects:

Theatrical plays, performances.
Installations that explore and realize the interaction between artwork, exhibition space and observers with the contribution of technology.

Application: deadline the 15th of July 2018

The theme of the fifth edition of LMDP Festival is the interrelation between theatre, arts and new technology.

The application must contain:

• Artist’s CV;

• Detailed description of the project (in PDF);

• Technical rider;

• Selection of max 5 photos;

• Link audio / video material (Vimeo or Youtube).

The result is going to be notified only to selected projects by the 15th Of August 2018.

Publication

Applying for the call, artists agree that the projects should be represented at the Festival. Selected artists must provide a short biography and an abstract of the project. They also agree that the material related to the project could be published on the Festival website and/or presented to the press for promotional purposes.

Archiving process

Artists authorise Kyber Teatro – L’aquilone di Viviana to present their work, to store the material and make it accessible through the Festival’s website. All rights to the artwork and images will remain to the artist. The Organization is also entitled to document the event in all its phases through audio recordings, video or images.

Application materials must be sent to: info@kyberteatro.it

Kyber Teatro – L’Aquilone di Viviana Soc. Coop.

Via Newton 12, 09131 Cagliari (Italy)

Tel: +39 0708607175 – Mob: + 39 3470484783

info@kyberteatro.it

Save the date: 24-25 May 2018, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Upcoming workshop: “Diversity and Local Contexts: Adaptation and Heritage”

The Faculty of Social Sciences (Institute of Sociological Studies) and the Faculty of Arts (Institute of World History) of Charles University in cooperation with the Czech division of the UNESCO–MOST Program, organized a 2 days workshop on”Diversity and Local Contexts: Adaptation and Heritage”
The workshop and publication are supported by KREAS (Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions for the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World) and REACH (RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re-)use and management of European culture) Projects.
Experts from Poland, Czech Republic, United Kindom and United States will explore “the relationship between urban heritage and cultural identities in their historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural dimensions” facing topics as interethnic relations, identity, homogeneity, memory and migration.
Prof. Luda Klusáková and Prof. Zdeněk Uherek from Charles University and part of the REACH team, will contribute to the meeting each holding a speech about
“The “New” roles for public places in small towns: Bastides in South West of France viewed from Central Europe” and “Discourse on public spaces in Prague and selected little towns of the Czech Republic”.
When
May 24, 2018, 9:00 – 13: 00; 14:30 – 18:00
May 25, 2018, 9:00 – 13:30
Where
Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague, Czech Republic, Room 217 (2nd Floor)
Poster of the workshop
Full Programme

Next dates: 17-27 May 2018,Granada,Spain.

MEMOLab: May initiatives for the recovery of historical irrigation systems in Sierra Nevada

MEMOLab laboratory of the University of Granada continues the planning and implementation of events dedicated to the recovery and use of historical irrigation systems in the territory of Sierra Nevada.
The 5th of May in cooperation with the Town Hall of Lugros (Granada) and the National and Natural Park of Sierra Nevada, organized a cleaning day of the high mountain historical irrigation channels. The initiative took place in the small municipality of Lugros and in the neighbouring irrigation communities of Guadix and Graena.This system begins in the high peaks: its fundamental goal is to filter water soaking the mountain and producing an artificial recharge of the aquifer.
The event was joined by 30 volunteers coming from Spain, France, Slovenia, Chile and Turkey. These works have been carried out with traditional techniques.
The 27th of May, the MEMOLab laboratory of the University of Granada will run the cleaning and the put in use of the historical irrigation channel of Romayla.
The initiative is organized in collaboration with the Museum of Cuevas Del Sacromonte, the Municipality of Granada,The Council of Alhambra and Generalife and it is part of the rich programme of round tables and events that will be held from 17th to 27th of May, focus on the promotion and enhance of the valley of Darro, one of the most original landscape of the town and province.
The 25th of May, Prof. José María Martin Civantos, from the University of Granada will attend the round table about “Historical Irrigation channels and environment of “Darro river valley”.
The reinstatement and conservation of this autochthonous irrigation systems started with the MEMOLA project and it is one of the most interesting model of good practice for the rural heritage pilot of REACH Project as it promote the direct participation of civil society and public administration in the preservation and promotion of local landscape and cultural heritage.